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Elite Ultra With No Shoulder Pauldrons

[i](For those of you who have no idea what the shoulder pauldrons are, they are the shoulders of the default Elite armour in Halo 3 or the "Combat Harness").[/i]
In the level Tayari Plaza, when Buck asks about the "family feud" between the Brutes and the Elites, if you go under the overpass you'll find an Elite Ultra with no shoulder pauldrons on.
Is it just a glitch like the merged Elite bodies on Floodgate in Halo 3, or is there another more canonical reason as to why this particular Elite has no shoulder pauldrons like his Ultra brethren?
[Edited on 08.15.2012 6:16 PM PDT]